Re: RFC: MI output during program execution

Nick Roberts
2005-08-24T02:20:50Z

> As you've no doubt noticed, we have lots of intermingled local
> changes, so it's going to be a long hard process to contribute
> everything. While (IMHO) at least 95% of our local changes are
> of interest for FSF GDB, the context diff alone (no new files,
> no configury diffs) is 125Kloc! So we'll be most grateful for
> any help you can lend. I myself have been working on a patch
> for the basic native configuration, which will help break some
> of the contribution logjam by enabling testing on Darwin instead
> of Linux or some other config.

I'm only considering merging the event notification in in MI. I realise this
probably involves other files such as infrun.c but hopefully these changes
can be separated from more extensive ones that you may have made.

> >Could you please tell me where you think the best place to start would be?
> >I guess CVS would be better than a tarball. Would it be best to wait until
> >Stan & Klee have completed their merge?
> >
> Anything you do now will be of value, I don't think our MI stuff
> has churned a whole lot, but I would like to put out a drop of
> our latest mostly-working CVS anyway, since it's merged up to FSF
> sources as of a few days ago, plus most of the local changes have
> been at least categorized by purpose. I can't think of any obstacles,
> but as a "newbie" in Apple GDB :-) , I need to find out what I can do.

Presumably I can pick this merge from CVS (I've already checked out the current
source). Did you tag the merge? Is it gdb-424?

I have heard that Apple are moving MacOSX over to Intel architecture. Is it
possible to get a copy of Darwin (or even a preview of MacOSX) for Intel so
that I can put it on a partition on my PC? That way I can compare the output
of my merged version of FSF GDB with that of Apple GDB.

Nick